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In Lisa's team, only, Amber was still alive, fortunately, the battle had come to an end, and they finally obtained the "holy lyre der Himmel" after experiencing this part of the storyline, Lisa felt that many players progress might get stuck in this domain.

Back at the Tavern, the traveller let the purified dragon tear crystal fall onto the lyre successfully empowering it, however, according to Venti the lyres power was still far from replenished therefore, more dragon, tear crystals would need to be collected.

First, they had to defeat a wandering ruin guard at the thousand winds Temple, then, in the ruins of Dvalin temple, they had to defeat monsters and abyss mages throughout the domain, finally, they had to clear out a Hilichurl camp in Dadaupa gorge an open the precious chest containing the dragon tear crystal, undoubtably, this was a long and tedious battle.

For Lisa, however, it was a source of enjoyment because during this process she obtained a five star weapon " lost prayer to the sacred winds" and her constellation also reached C1, it felt like something was supporting her, guiding her on the path to become the strongest character in game even though she was initially just a four star character, Lisa came to this conclusion through studying her various statistics and mechanics, The four star strategic weapon character—Lisa, Can indeed exist.

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Milk, raspberry jam, sugar, mint…".

Eula looked at the shopping list and felt a bit. Puzzled. Taylor didn't run a restaurant so why did he need So many ingredients? Well, since he had so many mysteries, it was better to just not speculate so much she would just buy the stuff on the list.

With a large bag of ingredients in hand, Eula headed back towards the mobile game Cafe, however, while she was walking through the cathedral Square, she saw a young bird singing under the Archon statue, it seems to be a him related to the anemo god however, in the young Bird song, Barbatos did not appear a solemn and benevolent as described in the historical records. Instead The portrayal was more carefree and filled with human traits.

The people in the square seem to be enjoying this unique wind god hymn, hi, ever, most of the own liquors were middle-aged or children, with very little young people in sight.

After this hymn ended there was a scattered applause from the audience, many more were thrown into the hat that was in front of the young bard.

" I feel like I've seen this bard somewhere before." Eula thought, as she tried to get closer, and at the same time, the bard noticed her.

"Ah, finally, a young lady! I was starting to think that Mondstadt's aging problem had become extremely severe with not even one young person around."

The Young bard talked in a teasing tone, when Eula heard his voice and saw his face more clearly she immediately recognised him.

" You, aren't you Venti?!"

Venti showed a puzzled expression and asked " how do you know my name? I only arrived back in Mondstadt recently."

" Not only do I know your name, but I also know that you're able to converse with stormterror." Eula replied with a look of astonishment.

Venti didn't mind, Eula's curious gaze and asked with a somewhat pleading expression.

"Um, fair lady, could you help me buy a couple of drinks? They said I appear to be underage and can't have any alcoholic beverages, last time I was in Mondstadt there was no such rule."

" Shouldn't you be trying to obtaining the "holy lyre der Himmel" and saving Dvalin?"

Upon hearing this, Venti, puzzled expression froze for a moment, and then he became very serious.

" Who are you and how do you know by these things?"

Eula didn't answer Venti's question but continued talking " are you curious why you can see any young people around? That's because all the young people are playing mobile games at the mobile game cafe and an important character in the game."

After finishing her words Eula ignored the dazed Venti and prepared to return to the store with the bag of ingredients, Fenty, on the other hand, had a bewildered expression, wasn't with her boss did a form of foresight?

Venti still puzzled decided to tail Eula and see what this mobile game cafe was and why she claimed he was in it.

Before long, Venti who was following Eula till she entered the store, standing on the roof, Venti noticed that this street currently had a large flow of people with young people occasionally entering the shops. Were all of Mondstadt's Young people gathering here? What was so attractive to them?

Fancy also saw two Knights of Favonius patrol unit going back-and-forth along this street, apparently there was a strong need to maintain the order and security along this street.

After observing for a short while Venti seized the opportunity to stop a young man who just walked out of the mobile game cafe.

"Hey good sir, what exactly is that mobile game cafe you where just in?"

"Which rural Village are you from? Did you just arrive in the city today? Is that why you don't even know what the mobile game Café is?" The young man looked surprised, " this is the hottest game in all of Mondstadt right now unfortunately I have to work every day so I can only enjoy it for one hour before and after work."

A game? Could it cause such as sensation Venti started to feel very curious.

"Judging from your appearance, you probably can't afford it, The minimum prices 10,000 mora, my friend, I would advise you to get a job before thinking about playing here." The young man patted Venti on his shoulder and left while humming a tune.

Venti scratched his head, feeling a bit agitated by what the young man said, but after some thought, he remembered he was indeed broke. But Venti decide to go inside and take a look anyway, Even if he couldn't play he would still be allowed to at least watch right?

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"Ah, Venti you really did come."

At the entrance of the mobile game cafe, Taylor greeted the person just walked in, Eula had told Taylor about her encounter with Venti in the square, so Taylor guessed that Venti would be coming over, out of curiosity.

Venti's azure eyes looked at the man in front of him.

Although faint Venti was able to sense a very powerful electro forced emanating from the person in front of him, however, he did not see a "vision" on him, could this be the Archon from inazuma? But that one is a goddess. From Venti's impression of her "She" couldn't possibly become like this and open up a mobile game Cafe in Mondstadt, in any case, this young man made Venti feel a bit uneasy, after smiling at Taylor Venti curiously entered the gaming area.

The seamlessly occupied by young people many of them had our understanding behind them. They all looked very excited and happy, they were pointing at glowing handheld boxes, and using terms that Venti couldn't understand like " Adventure Rank" and "Elemental Burst".

"hey, isn't that Venti?"

Some of the place had already completed the quest for the holy lyre and upon seeing Venti looking around they instantly recognised him.

"Haha, yeah it really is, he looks just like he does in the game."

"Mr.McCall has put a lot of effort into this, even bring someone to dress up as Venti."

Since most of the people in the gameing area had already met Venti as a character, they had a more preconceived notion, now the person appearing before them, give them the feeling of seeing a game character in real life.

Seeing so many people greet him, Venti felt his smile was feeling a little stiff, ' how come everyone acts like they know me so well from what they're saying I'm not the real Venti just someone dressed like him, how on earth did I become my own stand-in?'

Then he's arrival didn't cause a great store, although he had some remarkable moments in the story like talking to stormterror, and knowing the history of stormterror, overall, he was just an extraordinarily knowledgeable bard He didn't have the same level of popularity as Jean or Diluc.

Venti, finally still behind the mature woman with brown hair dressed in purple to see how she played this mobile game, what he didn't realise was that the woman had already noticed Venti gaze and there was a meaningful curve at the corner of her lips.

…

Lisa had long confirmed that everything in this mobile game had a parallel in reality. Now Venti had truly appeared in Mondstadt and he had come into this mobile game cafe, it almost felt predestined.

In the game, Lisa had already cleared the hilichurl camp in dadupu gorge, and open the precious chest to obtain the last dragon tear crystal, The quest prompt directors her to go to Dawn winery next, The next step would be to purify all the crystals completely, and then drip them into the holy lyre to restore its anemo power.

After teleporting to the statue of the seven just north of Dawn winery, Lisa proceeded to head towards the winery, when the winery came in to view Venti's mouth slightly hung open.

After this brief observation, he had a rough idea of why this mobile game had become so popular and appealing. Inside it was a simplified version of Mondstadt and you could control different characters and fully explore this world, and each character had unique abilities (Skills).

For example, the lady I'm watching seems to be controlling herself and has decently strong electro elemental power, she can easily defeat the hilly channels, however, what happened at the Don winery next nearly made Ventis eyes pop out. " was this how can I be in this game myself?!"

"What's there to be surprised about? Is your identity really that special?" Lisa asked with some indifference.

"I am…"

Venti hesitated, putting his hand to his forehead.

"Never mind your name is Lisa, right? miss Lisa, can you tell me what kind of character I am in this game?"

"Well right now it seems like you're just a bard who doesn't do any real work."

Venti: "…"

"is there really nothing special about my character?"

Lisa gave Venti a side glance and said, " keep watching and will find out, I just completed the mission to continue with the storyline."

"Alright…"

Venti took a breath.

He thought himself today was truly unbelievable. He wanted to see just what kind of role he would play in this game.

…

In front of Dawn winery, Diluc, Jean and Venti seem to been waiting for long time.

"Woohoo!"

Paimon clapped her little hands.

" Dvalin protection squad, assemble!"

Dvalin protection squad? What's going on? Venti Hadn't even started looking for the heroes of this era but in this game, it seemed like a main character Group had already formed to carry out the mission of saving Dvalin, The scenes that followed Me Venti, suspect The images in the mobile game were from the future, if so, then would all his upcoming actions be shown in the mobile game.

…

"Let's put our crystals together."

"Oh… the colour of these crystals looks… muddy."

"Dvalin… you're going through so much pain… let's start purifying these crystals first. Please, traveller."

In the game as Venti spoke three dark red tears shaped crystals, full of corruption appeared in front of him, seeing this, Venti couldn't help but tighten his grip slightly, currently he did indeed have a tear crystal, it was also a corrupt dark-red colour, but he had an encountered this Traveler, that's in the game here, the ability to purify the corrupted dragons tear. Moreover, this Traveler looks remarkably similar to one of the twins, in Venti's memories, However, if it really was one of those twins, then the amount of information in this mobile game would be too overwhelming and complex to fathom, Venti subconsciously felt that this was unlikely.

Next, the teardrop crystals were successfully purified and dripped onto the holy lyre.

" Can the power of the holy lyre be used to remove the curse on Dvalin?"

Venti stroked his chin if the teardrop crystal could be purified, and the holy lyre restored to its perfect state, it may actually work. In no more than 10 minutes this mobile game had revealed a method that could save Dvalin, making Venti take it much more seriously.

After more conversation, it was agreed that they would call for Dvalin at "starsnatch cliff" with the holy lyre. 'Can it truly be done?' Venti saw that the Holy lyre had been fully repaired. If it were him in reality, then perhaps there would indeed be a chance of success, in the game It seemed that this pseudo-feasibility could be verified much more quickly.

Without hesitation, Lisa directly teleported to the teleportation waypoint at starsnatch cliff, then the story continued.

Diluc: " everyone is finally here."

"What a view…" Paimon exclaimed

" lovely for fated reunion isn't it?"

"Regardless of the outcome, things finally seem to be taking a turn for the batter." Jean then said solemnly "mondstadt has really been going through so much recently…"

"Huh! In the end, the solution to our problem was a simple as a traveller and a song."Diluc then quipped " I suppose the Knights of Favonius may have played part in it too…"

"Oh, we get it master Diluc… Everyone please step aside! I the best wandering bard of the mortal world shall begin my performance with the holy lyre."

Venti stepped to the front of the cliff and started playing the holy lyre.

A beautiful melody started to drift in the wind carried by the seabreeze and the mountain winds.

"Roar"

A massive being ascended from below the cliff, a cyan coloured dragon, then hovered over starsnatch cliff.

They really managed to call it!

"You have come…" Dvalin's voice sounded hoarse " what has been done, cannot be undone…"

" if so, then why do I see sadness in your eyes? A sadness that speaks of your yearning for this song…"

Dvalin admitted a little growl, seemingly wavering, and struggling with something that made it both anxious and furious.

Then a blast of Ice struck, knocking the holy lyre from Venti hands and Breaking it.

" do not be fooled by him, dear dragon…"

An abyss mage appeared from behind Dvalin.

" He left you to rot alone… now he attempts to deceive you once more…"

The abyss mage voice held a hypnotic tone under the influence of this voice, Dvalin's attitude shifted in an unfavourable direction.

" let your wrath fester, Mondstadt has already turned its back on you!"

At the abyss mage's words Dvalin spread its wings and claws. A tremendous rage was quickly escalating within it.

"Barbatos…"

"You!… you were planning this all along? To have me slain by them?"

The dragons roar was like a typhoon.

"No it's not like that!"

However, the abyss mage did not give Venti an opportunity to explain, it arrived at the spot where the corrupted blood had concentrated on the back and sneered.

"The time has come for the dragon to serve It's true master…"

"while you bewail your pathetic selves, and watch the world tremble with fear."

"Hehehe…"

…

This section of the plot head ended, leaving Lisa and Venti stunned.

For a moment, Venti didn't know how to react. The game area was bustling with people engaged in intense conversation at various locations, but this only served to emphasise the silent atmosphere here.

Venti: "???"

I have only just arrived in Mondstadt, and without doing anything my real identity has been exposed just like this? Who even make this mobile game anyway? My friend do you have no ethics, just casually exposing someone's secret like this? Fortunately, for now, it appears only Lisa had completed to the segment of the storyline, but if you give the rest of the players, a few more days once the majority of players have reached here, they vies tree identity of Barbatos would no longer be a secrets, but just a well-known fact!

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Lisa gently pressed her thumb to her forehead inside, softly, realising all her previous speculations were dead wrong, venti wasn't the wind gods apostle, He was the genuine Archon himself, Dvalin words confirmed this result, and Venti own reaction behind her, solidified it. This was the undeniable truth but perhaps Venti had not expected that his true identity would be exposed because of a mobile game.

"You… you don't really believe in the content of this game, do you?" Venti was hoping to be able to deny.

But Lisa shook her head. " from the start up tonight. Nothing in this mobile game has been fabricated and everything has a correspondence in reality. Do you think it would manipulate this Fact?"

Venti fell silent, looking around. Fortunately no one else had noticed the situation here, he lowered his voice and said to Lisa. " alright, I admit it, I am Barbatos."

" But what's the deal with this mobile game? Does this mean that Dvalin truly became the enemy of Mondstadt?"

Lisa shook her head. "My lord Barbatos, if even you can't work out the situation, then I'm even more lost."